China Mobile will focus on subsidizing thousands of smartphones

Recently, China Mobile frequently launched new moves, China Mobile's chief executive Li said in an interview with Sohu it this year that China Mobile will focus on increasing the number of smart-phone subsidies over the past year, and plans to raise it from 17.2 billion yuan to 20 billion yuan this year. On the LTE side, China Mobile will expand to 10 cities and is expected to LTE test network in the country's major cities next year. In the Hong Kong region, the commercial LTE network is planned to be launched in the four quarter, in addition to the LTE business services launched last month. The effect of these reforms is to let us wait and watch.

China Mobile will focus on subsidizing thousands of smartphones this year

Li in an interview with Sohu it yesterday afternoon after China Mobile released its 2011 sustainability report. Li said that the thousand-yuan smartphone is to support the future development of China Mobile, is an important component of mobile informatization, China Mobile will focus this year to increase the thousand-yuan smartphone subsidy, and hope that with the industrial chain to promote thousands of yuan or even more low-end smartphone development.

Li revealed that China Mobile's investment in mobile subsidy last year is 17.2 billion, this year will increase to 20 billion, most of which will be used in TD smartphone subsidies, including the thousand TD smart phones will be the focus of subsidies.

Plan to build LTE test network in major cities next year

In the LTE aspect, China Mobile in 2010 in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen Six cities LTE scale technical test construction work, Li to Sohu it said, LTE in six Test city test effect is good, this year will increase Beijing, Tianjin, Qingdao, Wuhan, The scope of the trial was extended to 10 cities. If the results are satisfactory, the LTE test network will be deployed next year in major metropolitan cities nationwide.

In LTE base station construction, Li said, 4G equipment cost than 3G cheaper than 50% to 60%,4g profit contribution better, with the 4G network and the popularity of smartphones, 4G will become the company's business new rapid growth point. China Mobile will build 20,000 LTE base stations this year, the base station is expected to be more than 200,000 in 2013.

Four-quarter Hong Kong push commercial LTE network to introduce LTE mobile phone next year

April 25 this year, China Mobile announced the launch of LTE 4G Network Service in Hong Kong to provide 100MB maximum download speed per second. The previous February 6, China Mobile announced a 170 million Hong Kong dollar for the TDD band of 30MHz, 2330MHZ-2360MH, will be used to build the LTE network in Hong Kong, which is China Mobile in the domestic expected to build the first commercial LTE network. It is understood that China Mobile will achieve the end of Hong Kong 4G LTE network outdoor coverage can reach the existing network of 100% coverage level, indoor coverage up to 80% levels.

Li said to Sohu it that China Mobile plans to launch a commercial LTE network in Hong FDD in the four quarter of this year, and that there will be 4G dual-mode terminals that can support both LTE and TDD, which can build a good foundation for the development of the Chinese mainland.

With regard to the introduction of the TD-LT Terminal plan in mainland China, Li said that in the city where the pilot network is being deployed, a small number of users with a LTE data card can experience it directly, and most other users can access it by supporting Wi-Fi terminals, The second half of next year will be introduced in the mainland with the LTE test network 4G mobile phones.